NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 1:41

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When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

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Verse 41. The infant leaped in her womb. [7] According to the general opinion of the interpreters, this motion of the child at the time was not natural: and some think that God gave to Saint John, even in his mother’s womb, a passing knowledge of the presence of his Redeemer. See Saint Augustine in the above cited letter to Dardanus. Witham.

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